Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Arkansas, 1917

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	957
2	Ruby	354
3	Ruth	323
4	Helen	319
5	Mildred	312
6	Dorothy	297
7	Hazel	236
8	Pauline	220
9	Margaret	217
10	Willie	208
11	Frances	198
12	Thelma	192
13	Edna	189
14	Gladys	178
15	Lois	176
15	Virginia	176
17	Marie	174
18	Annie	170
19	Ethel	164
19	Lucille	164
21	Martha	163
22	Opal	159
23	Edith	150
24	Elizabeth	146
25	Jessie	143
26	Bessie	138
26	Juanita	138
26	Mattie	138
29	Anna	137
30	Alice	136
30	Louise	136
32	Irene	135
33	Beatrice	132
34	Evelyn	125
35	Clara	120
36	Lillian	118
37	Emma	115
38	Bernice	112
38	Elsie	112
40	Lillie	111
41	Bertha	107
42	Velma	100
43	Alma	99
44	Myrtle	97
45	Georgia	92
45	Vera	92
47	Geneva	91
48	Lorene	90
49	Nellie	89
50	Pearl	88

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	985
2	William	716
3	John	679
4	Robert	523
5	Charles	317
6	George	312
7	Willie	261
8	Henry	227
9	Thomas	225
10	Joe	183
11	Joseph	161
12	Edward	157
13	Paul	156
14	Walter	155
15	Frank	154
16	Roy	149
17	Carl	134
18	Clarence	131
18	Fred	131
20	Albert	128
21	Raymond	126
22	Earl	118
22	Jack	118
24	Ralph	116
25	Harold	114
26	Arthur	107
26	Jessie	107
26	Richard	107
29	Cecil	104
30	Ernest	98
31	Howard	97
31	Woodrow	97
33	Clyde	96
34	Charlie	95
35	Jesse	93
36	Louis	90
37	Herman	89
38	Lee	87
39	David	86
40	Floyd	85
40	Samuel	85
42	Lloyd	79
43	Eugene	77
44	Harry	75
45	Andrew	74
46	Lawrence	72
46	Ray	72
48	Herbert	69
49	Oscar	68
50	Leroy	67